TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schrempp,Gregory Allen
TI  - The ancient mythology of modern science: a mythologist looks (seriously) at popular science writing 
SN  - 978-0-7735-3989-1
U1  - 201.65 23E
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Montreal, Kingston, London [etc.]
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Science news / Philosophy
KW  - Science news / Social aspects
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Mythology
KW  - Religion et sciences
KW  - Mythologie
KW  - Sciences / Vulgarisation
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 277-291; Introduction: Centaurs and scientists -- Mythologizing matter : on myth, popular science, and the problem of centric knowledge -- It had to be you! : fire without Prometheus -- 3. Randomness and life : sobering lessons from the drunkard's walk -- Copernican kinship : an origin myth for the category -- 5. Descartes descending or the last homunculus : introversive anthropomorphizing in popular science writing -- Once more, with feeling! : the view from the moon and the return of the Copernican revolution -- Conclusion: Paradise lost, paradise regained : how scientists save myth
ER  -